can u answer this?

Question

1. can religion dictate the morality of the society?
2. can man live without religion?
3. can a country have only one religion?
4. does religion affects the decision of the individual?

Answer 1

1) yes for example British Law was based very heavily on Christian morality until Jeremy Benthem and John Stuart Mill coaxed a lot of amendments and made it more utilitarian/humanitarian.

2) yes, the same way that it is possible to be moral without having to have a supreme force to keep you on it

3) this is tricky... it depends how general your'e being for example a country can consider itself one religion, but is that 1 religion and no sects, or one religion and many sects? or 1 dominant religion with other religions. eg the uk in times gone by has considered itself Christian, but that was divided into catholic and protestant. not to mention the presence of other religions eg Judaism. not a very cut and dried thing.

4) if a religion was not influential on a person would their be a point in that person being religious? it effects the way people make decisions, what they consider 'ethical', 'respectful' and 'right'.

hope this helps

Answer 2

Answers:

1) I believe that religion is, among other things, an attempt to instill a moral system upon society, so the short answer is yes.

2) Yes, many people live without what we would call religion. This does vary by what your definition of religion is. For instance, some religions have no Deity, just a moral philosophy. Is it still a religion?

3) Many countries have only one religion. Most of them 3rd world countries.

4) You are on Yahoo Answers and you have to ask? Of course, just read some of the other answers in here to religious questions.

Answer 3

1. Morality of a society will never be able to be sufficiently legislated to curtail any and all immoral acts. However, the principles set forth in the Magna Carta, the Constitution of the U.S. and the Bill of Rights were historically founded upon christian principals. The founding fathers were christians and held to christian tenets. It is the reason this country was founded; Freedom to pursue and practice religious belief.

2. Man can live without religion but not without opinion on the subject of religion.

3. Within the framework of the current governing body each nation can decide for itself how it wishes to handle religious principles. In the US its a ludicrous idea to propose one religion. In a middle eastern theocracy it would be the governing principle that led to all policy, legislation and business practice that affected not only the government of that country but its people.

4. If one adheres to a religion/religious principles then it does indeed affect the decisions of the individual in question. How could it not? Conversely, if an individual has no belief system which has been founded on a supreme being/God, he/she would have only the governing body of laws in which he found himself/herself to base any decisions.

Answer 4

1. Yes
2. Yes
3. Yes
4. Yes

Answer 5

Nadine M,
1. yes
2 yes
3. yes, they all will
4. yes

Answer 6

yes it can

yes he can, but why would he

yes it can

yes it does